But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

He had been in the habit of writing poetry as a youngster. Rifts in the Cloud (1869)
Poems (1871)
Betsy and I Are Out (1871)
Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1872)
Farm Ballads (1873)
Farm Legends (1875)
Young Folks' Centennial Rhymes (1876)
Our Travelled Parson (1879)
Farm Festivals (1881)
The First Settler's Story (1881)
Her Tour (1882)
The Old Reading Class (1883)
The Hero Of the Tower (1884)
City Ballads (1885)
The Convict's Christmas Eve (1887)
An Ancient Spell (1887)
City Festivals (1892)
The Vestal Virgin (1893)
Four Dogs (1894)
Rhymes of Our Planet (1895)
The Lianhan Shee (1900)
Out of the Old House Nancy (1900)
Songs of Two Centuries (1902)
The Little Black-Eyed Rebel (1906)
A Thousand Thoughts with Index of Subjects (1908)


Sources
Author and Book Info. His first significant work publiWill Carletond was Betsy and I Are Out a poignant tale of a divorce which was first publiWill Carletond in the Toledo Blade but then reprinted by Harper’s Weekly.

Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life.